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Tag: technology

  • The importance of your own online place

    For The Love of God, Make Your Own WebsiteGita Jackson | Aftermath “Unfortunately, this is what all of the internet is right now: social media, owned by large corporations that make changes to them to limit or suppress your speech, in order to make themselves more attractive to advertisers or just pursue their owners’ ends.”

  • I made the mistake of adding tech feeds to my RSS …

    As I’ve reinstated my tech RSS feeds, I find myself getting more and more suspicious about the proliferation of AI.

  • Don’t talk about tech and NOT credit authors

    This short section of The Atlantic Daily has the following sentence: “The term metaverse was coined in a 1992 science-fiction novel titled Snow Crash. (The book also helped popularize the term avatar, to refer to digital selves.)” The book, not Neal Stephenson, the person who happened to author the book, but the book. If we…

  • Smile when you say that

    A post in which I talk about a podcast, but also about how you can hear a smile and why that scares me.

  • What about an NFT of a tulip?

    “It’s a Ponzi scheme. When there was tulip mania, at least when you lost all your money, you still had a tulip.” Dennis Kelleher I watch cryptocurrency drama from the nosebleed seats. I have some shallow understanding of the system and, I’m not ashamed to say, I rely on my students to fill in some…

  • Everything in content moderation…

    Content moderation is what Twitter makes — it is the thing that defines the user experience. It’s what YouTube makes, it’s what Instagram makes, it’s what TikTok makes. They all try to incentivize good stuff, disincentivize bad stuff, and delete the really bad stuff. From Nilay Patel’s “Welcome to hell, Elon” at The Verge

  • The Chaos Machine, by Max Fisher

  • Social Media Exile

    I don’t think social media is really all that healthy. I’ve been positive in dealing my own rhetoric, especially in class. I’ve tried to discuss its functions conceptually, that there are benefits if you curate well and hypervigilant, but the labor costs outweigh the benefit. I have been mindful of how I feel when I’m…